That's not homesickenss. 1700s medicine was doing more harm than good and when she was sent home and they were no longer filling her with what was likely poisonous she recovered.
Frankly, today's hospitals are so poor in terms of infection control (because of simple things like doctors not washing their hands, or staying home when they themselves are sick) and providing patients with good nutrition - the food is basically prison quality - that you are indeed better off going home as soon as it is safe to do so.
> because of simple things like doctors not washing their hands
Because of very complicated things like needing to maintain sterile rooms too. Educating people is important, but hospitals are inherently prone to spreading infections. If everyone behaved flawlessly, they would still have this problem.
And let's not forget how incredibly stressful they are.
Honestly, I can't understand the bias from modern medicine of interning people into them.
Hospitals are terribly unhealthy places to be: stress, broken sleep, weird temperature and queer air, noise, light, sedentary, theft, viruses and bacteria, removal of choice, domineering doctors and nurses, drugging, and worse. A necessary evil, but much of the system is more evil than necessary.
Mental hospitals are even more unhealthy: violence, rape, threats, stress, forced submission, locked away from all comfort and familiarity, no family, no love, the vulnerable learning from completely whacko inmates (worse than YouTube LOL), trusting insane people, can't trust nurses or doctors. I try to always look after my friends and family. I would admit them into "professional" care only as a last resort: the mental health environments are dangerously toxic.
Hospitals are great places to meet people though. Deep intimacy is wonderful for getting to know people and we don't get many opportunities for knowing people properly. And usually an eclectic mixture of backgrounds - which I enjoy.
It projects the values of 2024 coastal America on the 17th century Switzerland of all places. A country so poor and desperate its only export was young men to be canon fodder.
Frankly, today's hospitals are so poor in terms of infection control (because of simple things like doctors not washing their hands, or staying home when they themselves are sick) and providing patients with good nutrition - the food is basically prison quality - that you are indeed better off going home as soon as it is safe to do so.